I'd say leave it as it is .. ie " 12.34" is a string "12.34" is a number
This way you have all the options you need and it's up to the coder to decide what they want. If " 12.34" is a string it's fine If " 12.34" is *NOT* a string, then TRIM it and pass it SQLite cleaned up If you change it, what happens if " 12.34" *IS* a string? It'll get converted to a number and you'll lose all those useful " "'s which may not be want you want. In the new case, you lose a choice (actually you lose real data) > Ticket #1662 (http://www.sqlite.org/cvstrac/tktview?tn=1662) > complains that SQLite is not converting strings into numbers > if the string contains leading spaces. This happens because > SQLite just hands the string to strtod() and strtod() does not > recognize numbers with leading spaces. (Actually, strtod is > not used - our own internal implementation gets called, but > it works about the same.)
